“…As has been previously reported [4,7,10,11], the mass spectra of ammonia are expected to overlap with those of methane and water, which are also present in the neutral phase during the discharge phases, with varying ratios of hydrogen and deuterium atoms. In order to distinguish between the contributions of the three impurities to the mass spectrometer recordings, a statistical model, described in detail in [7,11] has been fit to the data.…”